How to format your references using the Proceedings of the Zoological Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proceedings of the Zoological Society. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

White, Morris F. 2015. Longevity: Mapping the path to a longer life. Nature 524: 170–171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanson, Brooks, and David Voss. 2007. Sunrise. Introduction. Hinode. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 1571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marte, Barbara, Alex Eccleston, and Deepa Nath. 2008. Molecular cancer diagnostics. Nature 452: 547.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Slota, Michael, Ashok Keerthi, William K. Myers, Evgeny Tretyakov, Martin Baumgarten, Arzhang Ardavan, Hatef Sadeghi, et al. 2018. Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons. Nature 557: 691–695.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Fitzgerald, Robert W., and Brian J. Meacham. 2017. Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Monastyrsky, Michail Ilych, ed. 2007. Topology in Molecular Biology. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Biglia, Barbara. 2011. Feminisms and Psychology in the Contemporary Spanish State. In Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights, ed. Alexandra Rutherford, Rose Capdevila, Vindhya Undurti, and Ingrid Palmary, 83–107. International and Cultural Psychology. New York, NY: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Proceedings of the Zoological Society.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. Water Ice Seen Inside A Comet For The First Time Thanks To A Massive Landslide. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 21.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 1998. APHIS: Solid Wood Packing Material From China. OGC-99-2. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tarar, Wasim Akram. 2008. A New Finite Element Procedure for Fatigue Life Predictionand High Strain Rate Assessment of Cold Worked Advanced High Strength Steel. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Pilon, Mary. 2013. Once Known For Hunting, Now for Humor. New York Times, February 13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (White 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hanson and Voss 2007; White 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hanson and Voss 2007)
Three or more authors: (Slota et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Proceedings of the Zoological Society
Abbreviation	Proc. Zool. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0373-5893
ISSN (online)	0974-6919
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